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Artisan Partners has appointed Pearse Monaghan as a director in the firm’s London-based distribution team.   Monaghan (pictured) will play a leading business development role for the firm in the UK and Ireland, where the group hopes to further develop its existing strong network of institutional and financial intermediary relationships.   Monaghan brings significant experience in the asset management industry to the role, most recently with Nomura Asset Management and HSBC Global Asset Management.   Andrew Marks, managing director and head of EMEA distribution at Artisan, says: “We are delighted to welcome Pearse to the team. His hire reflects our
Contagion from recent political upheaval, including former FBI director Mark Comey’s leaked memo and continued concerns over alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, has been reasonable, according to Lyxor.   It comes amid persisting signs of decent global growth and contained anxieties about China.   In its latest weekly brief, the firm writes: “The Lyxor Hedge Fund index was up +0.4 per cent as of Tuesday. Macro funds outperformed on their long European equities and long energy. Special situations continued to make steady progress. L/S equity fund returns were mixed, reflecting heterogeneous impact from the sudden market rotation.
Neptune, the fixed income network for real-time “axe” indications, is enhancing its integration with partner TS’s TradeSmart FI.   The Neptune network provides a venue for investors to consume the highest quality bond axes/inventory data from their most trusted bank counterparts.    This enables institutional investors to be more effective and targeted when looking to execute large size orders in products such as corporate and emerging market bonds.   Grant Wilson, CEO, Neptune Networks, says: “Connectivity to an EMS such as TradeSmart FI is precisely what our buy-side clients are seeking from Neptune. It provides the ability to consume an
Fiona Frick, CEO of boutique asset manager Unigestion, has been elected to the board of Sustainable Finance Geneva (SFG).    SFG is an association that establishes Geneva as the centre for innovation in sustainable finance by engaging individuals and harnessing collective intelligence.    Created in 2008 by 15 professionals, SFG now leads the way from Geneva as the key global platform for sustainable finance.   Frick (pictured) joins the 13 people Strategy and Surveillance Committee, which determines the strategic objectives and priorities of activity for SFG.   Frick is an advocate for responsible investment and has been an active member
Acadian Asset Management, a firm overseeing USD82 billion in active global and international quantitative assets, has launched a sustainable Emerging Markets ex Fossil Fuel strategy.   This strategy is one of the first to focus on implementing this theme across emerging markets.   Acadian, the first quantitative manager to sign the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), has always seen responsible investing as an integral part of its investment process, with dedicated ESG resources in place.   Acadian created this strategy to help meet growing investor demand for divestment within portfolios, while maintaining investment return potential and ensuring investors
RSRCHXchange, a MiFID II research solution and marketplace for institutional research, has partnered with CorpAxe, a provider of a solution for corporate access management, to make research consumption data available to mutual buy-side customers.   The collaboration allows research consumption and research assessment data to be pushed from the RSRCHX platform to CorpAxe via the RSRCHX data API. Making consumption and assessment data available alongside other sell-side interaction data provides users with a complete, unbundled overview and MiFID II compliant audit trail.   In addition, the partnership overcomes the significant data reconciliation challenges between buy-side and sell-side. Live consumption tracking
Saxo Bank has released a new developer portal, which provides technical documentation, reference guides, sample code and interactive tools for many of the technologies which in combination underpin Saxo’s Open Banking initiative.     Saxo’s Open Banking strategy is built on the premise that going forward an increasingly broader range of partnerships and collaborations will be the new disruptive factor in the financial industry.   As part of this vision, Saxo has made its multi-asset trading infrastructure available to a wide ecosystem of third-party developers, fintechs, vendors and partners, enabling them to connect their enterprises directly to Saxo’s complete trading
Colt Technology Services is to launch newly optimised low-latency network routes linking stock exchanges in Tokyo and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which will be available from 23 May 2017.   Connectivity will be provided through the company’s private Ethernet-based Colt IQ Network.   Latency between Tokyo and Chicago will reach a speed of 121.07ms between each endpoint after network optimisation. In addition, the company has commenced optimisation of other key routes in the Asia-Pacific region.   The new optimisations will benefit traders in Chicago who require fast connectivity to Tokyo, or exchange venues in Tokyo that require low-latency connectivity to
Euronext has acquired around 90 per cent of FastMatch for a USD153 million initial cash consideration.   FastMatch’s management will remain invested with a circa 10 per cent interest, with minority rights. Closing is subject to regulatory and anti-trust approvals, and is expected to occur in Q3 2017.   This bolt-on acquisition is part of Euronext’s strategy to actively leverage its balance sheet flexibility to capture value accretive opportunities and to accelerate growth and diversification of the revenue base in line with its ambitions. As such, the investment in FastMatch will not consume any resource dedicated to the deployment of
Managed futures traders gained 0.16 per cent in April, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge.   Year to date, the index remains down 0.66 per cent.   Five of Barclay’s CTA indices had gains in April, while three had losses. Currency Traders were up 0.40 per cent, Financial/Metals Traders gained 0.33 per cent, Systematic Traders added 0.20 per cent, and Diversified Traders eked out a 0.03 per cent gain.   The Agricultural Traders Index lost 0.38 per cent in April, and Discretionary Traders were down 0.11 per cent.   “Another month of rising equity prices generated profits

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